The most successful project that came from the studio was the Alice Comedies, a series of short films with both animation and live action actors. It wasn’t until Cinderella that the cat really became a staple part of the cartoons, and would become a promising character for Walt’s new idea: The Alice Comedies. The cat also stars in The Four Musicians of Bremen, Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack the Giant Killer, Goldie Locks and the Three Bears, and Cinderella. However, the Laugh-O-Gram cat follows almost the exact same design as Julius does later on. The significance of these films is it is the first time a cat like Julius is introduced in the Disney canon, whether it was actually Julius or not, we’ll never know, as he was never exclusively named.
This gag first appeared in Little Red Riding Hood, and made a reappearance in the Puss in Boots cartoon, only this time, the man would pull one of the spirits back down to the cat before it would reach 9. One of Walt’s favourite gags was the “nine lives” gag, where the cat character would have an accident and the cats spirit would exit its body 9 times. The film opens up with a cat walking on its 2 hind legs with an umbrella in hand, walking behind a man on their way to greet a lady and her car mechanic dog. It had some grounding factors from Charles Perrault’s book of the same name, but Disney took creative liberties with this one. Another time we see this same cat character was in the cartoon titled Puss in Boots, released in 1922 as the 7th short in their filmography. The first time we see a cat character is in Little Red Riding Hood, which is the 2nd cartoon short they produced. As to keep the process simple and also give Disney a signature style, many of the characters reappeared on multiple occasions in each cartoon. Laugh-O-Gram Films produced 10 cartoon shorts before they went under. They went through challenging obstacles to get their cartoons to screen, losing employees along the way due to shortage of money, and having creative differences between the team. In the 1920s, Walt and Ub were running a studio in Kansas City called Laugh-O-Gram Films.
Little Red Riding Hood & Puss in Boots: Laugh-O-Gram Films
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